Randall Engle

Regents Professor

Education

Ph.D. (1973) Experimental Psychology The Ohio State University

Research Interests

Individual differences in attention control and other executive functions. Ranges from brain mechanisms in thee differences to use of measures of attention control to select pilots and air traffic controllers.

About

I am research professor interested working memory capacity and the relationship of that concept to the concept of attention control. I have argued that individual differences in the construct measured as working memory capacity reflects differences in the ability to control attention to internally generated and externally elicited representations and that differences in this ability is an important component of general fluid intelligence (Engle & Kane, 2004). I have also entertained the likelihood that these differences reflect functioning of the normal frontal lobes which in turn reflect genetic differences in the regulation of dopamine and possibly other neurotransmitters.

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